51k arrests for illegal crossings 2 months in a row
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As the Washington Examiner reports, in the month of November over 51,000 people were apprehended at the Mexican border.
More than 51,000 people were caught illegally entering the United States from Mexico in November, according to Department of Homeland Security data released Thursday evening, the highest number recorded since President Trump took office almost two years ago.
"The November 2018 border numbers are the predictable result of a broken immigration system - including flawed judicial rulings - that usurps the will of the American people who have repeatedly demanded secure borders," DHS spokeswoman Katie Waldman said in a statement.
Half of those who illegally entered - 25,172 - were families. That figure is nearly four times more than the 7,000 families apprehended just one year earlier.
According to the report, there was an immediate downshift in illegal crossings after Trump first entered the White House as fewer than 16,000 people were apprehended. Later in 2017, illegal crossings gradually began to increase.
As Daily Mail reports, dozens of people were arrested after illegally crossing the border earlier this week:
Dozens of Central American migrants scaled the border fence between Mexico and the US on Sunday, only to be arrested by US Border Patrol guards.
The migrants, who walked thousands of miles to the border as part of a caravan, said they now plan to claim political asylum - fearing violence because of their beliefs if they return home.
President Trump previously deployed thousands of United States troops to the southern border in an effort to prepare it for a looming migrant caravan of over 5,000 members. The troops constructed defensive barriers and were responsible for helping border protection agents.
The deployments were recently approved by the Pentagon to continue into the end of January, via the LA Times:
The Pentagon on Tuesday approved keeping several thousand active-duty troops along the Southwest border at least through January, extending a controversial mission to assist the Border Patrol as it grapples with a surge of migrants seeking asylum.
Defense Secretary James N. Mattis signed the order to continue the mission through Jan. 31, according to a Pentagon statement. The deployment had been due to expire in mid-December.
https://www.sott.net/article/402546-Over-51K-apprehended-at-the-border-in-November
Sat, 08 Dec 2018
More than 51,000 people were caught illegally entering the United States from Mexico in November, according to Department of Homeland Security data released Thursday evening, the highest number recorded since President Trump took office almost two years ago.
"The November 2018 border numbers are the predictable result of a broken immigration system - including flawed judicial rulings - that usurps the will of the American people who have repeatedly demanded secure borders," DHS spokeswoman Katie Waldman said in a statement.
Half of those who illegally entered - 25,172 - were families. That figure is nearly four times more than the 7,000 families apprehended just one year earlier.
According to the report, there was an immediate downshift in illegal crossings after Trump first entered the White House as fewer than 16,000 people were apprehended. Later in 2017, illegal crossings gradually began to increase.
As Daily Mail reports, dozens of people were arrested after illegally crossing the border earlier this week:
Dozens of Central American migrants scaled the border fence between Mexico and the US on Sunday, only to be arrested by US Border Patrol guards.
The migrants, who walked thousands of miles to the border as part of a caravan, said they now plan to claim political asylum - fearing violence because of their beliefs if they return home.
President Trump previously deployed thousands of United States troops to the southern border in an effort to prepare it for a looming migrant caravan of over 5,000 members. The troops constructed defensive barriers and were responsible for helping border protection agents.
The deployments were recently approved by the Pentagon to continue into the end of January, via the LA Times:
The Pentagon on Tuesday approved keeping several thousand active-duty troops along the Southwest border at least through January, extending a controversial mission to assist the Border Patrol as it grapples with a surge of migrants seeking asylum.
Defense Secretary James N. Mattis signed the order to continue the mission through Jan. 31, according to a Pentagon statement. The deployment had been due to expire in mid-December.
https://www.sott.net/article/402546-Over-51K-apprehended-at-the-border-in-November
Sat, 08 Dec 2018
Trash at the Border Highlights the Environmental Cost of Illegal Immigration
https://cis.org/Sussis/Trash-Border-Highlights-Environmental-Cost-Illegal-Immigration
https://cis.org/Sussis/Trash-Border-Highlights-Environmental-Cost-Illegal-Immigration
